Refuse bag support



Jan. 25, 1949. T. o. SMITH 2,459,970

REFUSE BAG SUPPORT Filed Oct. 26, 1945 I N V EN TOR.

Tray Sm/rh ATTORNEY Patented Jan. 25, 1949 UNITED STATES PATE T OFFICEREFUSE BAG SUPPORT Travis Otis Smith, Kansas City, Mo., assignor, by

mesne assignments, to Arbee Products Company, Kansas City, Kans.,a firmcomposed of David M. Lorenz and Bernhard W. Alden Application mam, 1945,Serial No. 624,837

2Claims. (o1. zis ss) This invention relates to bag supports in generaland particularly means for holding bags adapted to receive refuse suchas kitchen garbage and the primary aim is to provide simple,inexpensive, rugged and effective equipment for mounting a refuse bag sothat it may be conveniently opened and closed through a minimum numberof operating parts.

This invention has for one of its salient aims the provision of a refusebag support having a pair of jaws arranged to engage opposed stretchesof the bag at the mouth thereof and simple structure for supporting thejaws for movement to and from a closed position where the mouth of thebag is maintained tightly closed to eliminate the escape of odors and toprevent the entrance of flies, gnats or other animal life that maybeattracted by the contents of the bag.

Further aims of the invention will appear during the course of thefollowing specification referring to the accompanying drawing, wherein:

Fig. 1 is a top plan View of a refuse bag holder showing the same in acondensed condition to illustrate in detail the mechanism at each end ofthe sack engaging jaws.

Fig. 2 is a transverse cross sectional view taken on line II-II of Fig.1 with the jaws in a closed position.

Fig. 3 is a similar cross sectional view illustrat ing the jaws in anopen condition or at one end of their path of travel, and

Fig. 4 is a front elevational view of the refuse bag holder with thejaws in a closed position.

The form of bag holder chosen for illustration embodies the broadfeatures of my invention and the numeral I designates a bracket,substantially U-shaped in form and having a base plate I2 through themedium whereof the entire assembly may be mounted upon a supportingwall. Laterally projecting legs I l form a part of bracket I0 and eachmounts a pair of arms I6 and I8 respectively. These arms are arcuate andpractically L-shaped and the means for attachment to the legs I4 arerivets about which the respective arms oscillate. The free ends of thelowermost stretches of arms I6 and I8 are developed into gear segments22 and 24 respectively and these gear segments are in mesh, as clearlyshown in Figs. 2 and 3.

The arms I6 and I8 are formed of sheet material and lie in the sameplane immediately adjacent to the inner face of the supporting legs It.The opposite free ends of each of the arms I6 and I8 carry jaws 26 oflike character in that each jaw comprises a strip 28 rigid to the armsI6 and I8 as the case may be and a swingable clamp 30 designed to grip aportion of the bag at the mouth thereof. These clamps 30 are U- shapedin transverse cross section and straddle strips 28, as clearly shown inFigs. 2 and 3.

A handle 32 mounted on one of strips 28 near its medial line affords agrip for the operator and when outward force is imparted to this handle,.opposed arms I6 carrying one strip 28 will be drawn toward the openside of bracket I0 and due to the intermeshing of gears 22 and 24 ateach end of the assembly, the opposite arms I8 will be moved abouttheir. pivotal points of support toward the open position.

A spring 34 having one end anchored to arm I8 and its opposite endanchored to bracket III, as clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 3, serves toyieldably maintain the pairs of arms I6 and I8 in either the completelyclosed condition, as shown in Fig. 2, or the open position, asillustrated in Fig. 3. The past center action of spring 34 is renderedclear in these Figs. 2 and 3 and it is also apparent from an observationof Fig. 3 that arm I8 is limited in its movement toward the openposition by a pin 9 on bracket I0.

When the arms are closed, clamps 30 are in juxtaposition and parallelismto form a closed mouth for the bag. The bag depends from jaws 28 and itsflexibility permits unrestricted movement of the parts as abovedescribed. Simultaneous movement of arms I E and I8 is always insuredbecause of gears 22 and 24.

Simplicity of structure and positive action is the result of utilizingthe assembly just described and since slight modifications as tostructural details might be made it is desired to be limited only by thespirit of the invention and scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described the invention what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is:

1. A refuse bag holder comprising a support; a pair of jaws each havingmeans for holding a bag along opposite portions of the mouth thereof; apair of arms at each end of the pair of jaws, there being an arm tomount each jaw in operative position; said arms each being separately,pivotally mounted on one face of the support, said arms beingsubstantially L-shaped and each provided with a gear at the free end ofthe base leg thereof, said gear of each pair being in mesh to insuresimultaneous movement of the arms about their pivotal connections whenthe jaws are shifted toward and from each other to close and open thebag held thereby; and a spring interconnecting one of these arms andsaid support for yieldably holding thearms in either the open or closedposition.

2. A refuse bag holder comprising a support; a pair of jaws each havingmeans for holding a bag along opposite portions of the mouth thereof; apair of arms at each end of the pair of jaws, there being an arm tomount each 'jawin -op'erative position; said arms each being separately,pivotally mounted on one face of the support,

said arms being substantially L-shaped and each provided with a gear atthe free end of 'thebas'e leg thereof, said gear of each pair 'beingimme'sh to insure simultaneous movement of the arms abouttheir pivotalconnectionswhen the jaws are shifted toward and from each other 'toclose and open the bag held thereby, one-of the arms hatfing a springfor yieldably holding the arm in either the open or closed position; anda pin on said one REFERENCES CITED The following references are ofrecord in the file of this patent:

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